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Refresher: James Comey and the 2016 Election

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James Comey's Opposition to Partisanship

The FBI has been criticized here for being political, and in our reporting actually shows no indication that the question of partisanship or Republican or Democrat ever came up. The calculation is, if she wins, and we didn't tell anybody that we had these emails, and it proves to be a problem, we're ruined. But by the book, none of that stuff's supposed to matter. What does the book say? We don't talk about our investigative steps, and we don't talks about ongoing investigations,. Those are the three big rules that got turned on their head here. I think that he wasn't a politically tricky situation. He put a thumb on the scale in terms of how much

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